OPERATION CROSSROADS. TESTS ABLE AND BAKER

Abstract

Test data are summarized on airburst (Test Able) and underwater (Test Baker) nuclear explosion tests of naval aircraft. The Bureau of Aeronautics target aircraft exposure plans for Test ABLE had as their objective the determination of the effects of the atomic bomb upon aircraft as a function of distance from the center of the burst. Of the 73 aircraft originally provided for the air burst forty remained usable for the underwater bomb test. These forty aircraft comprised nineteen undamaged, ten lightly damaged and eleven moderately to heavily damaged aircraft which were considered, however, to be satisfactory test items. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 18, 1946
Accession Number
AD0367502

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Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerodynamic Configurations
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Aircrafts
  • Boats
  • Bomb Racks
  • Bombs
  • Control Surfaces
  • Electronic Equipment
  • Explosives
  • Fuselages
  • Munitions
  • Navy
  • Nuclear Explosions
  • Photography
  • Radioactive Materials
  • Safety Equipment
  • Spars

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